False evidence

Chapter 26, License Plate No. 00736
Bian Xiaomao had worked at the hospital for nearly six years and was considered quite brave, but he was still suddenly startled.

Looking back, I couldn't help but feel both annoyed and amused.

The speaker was a long-haired woman wearing a blue striped hospital gown.

Bian Xiaomao has seen many patients like this, both male and female, who are hospitalized and still go out for a stroll and smoke in the middle of the night.

The woman waved a thin, long cigarette at Bian Xiaomao and said again, "Can I borrow a light?"

Bian Xiaomao reluctantly took out his lighter, lit a cigarette for her, and said, "Smoke less, and hurry back to your ward after you finish," before continuing his rounds.

The inpatient building is the largest building in the entire hospital. Bian Xiaomao walked up and down the stairs from the first floor to the eighth floor, taking breaks along the way. In addition, he had to patrol each floor, which took a considerable amount of time.

Once we reached the eighth floor and signed in, we took the elevator down.

As soon as the elevator doors closed, he started complaining.

It's not entirely his fault, because the last area to be inspected was a place that all the security guards considered unlucky—the morgue, located on the basement level.

Just as he was muttering curses under his breath, the elevator suddenly stopped.

As soon as the door opened, a person walked in quickly.

Upon seeing the person's appearance, Bian Xiaomao was stunned. Wasn't this the woman who had asked him for a light in the corridor earlier?

Seeing the cigarette pack in her hand, Bian Xiaomao frowned. "Smoking again? How come you're so addicted?"

The woman didn't speak, her face turned to the side in the mirror. Through the mirror, she smiled at Bian Xiaomao.

Looking at her face in the mirror, and then at her profile, Bian Xiaomao suddenly felt that something was off.

Just then, a "ding" sound was heard, and the elevator stopped again.

Bian Xiaomao slapped his forehead. He'd been so focused on looking at people that he hadn't realized they were already on the basement level. And this woman, didn't she even know to press the elevator button?
As soon as the door opened, the woman walked out first.

Bian Xiaomao smiled wryly: This guy is definitely a heavy smoker. He knows very well where you can smoke in a hospital.

The basement level isn't directly connected to the morgue; a large portion of it is underground parking.

Bian Xiaomao also smokes, and he would slack off here for a while when he was on night shift.

Seeing that the woman knew the way well, he followed her out, taking out his cigarettes and lighter as he went.

Just as he lowered his head to light a cigarette, he inadvertently saw a detail that nearly made him faint on the spot.

He finally realized that something was wrong with the woman.

At this moment, the woman walked in front, and he followed behind. Looking down, he saw that the woman was barefoot.

Not only that, but the woman walks on tiptoe with her heels off the ground!

What terrified him even more was that as the woman walked, a small sign with a red string tied to it would occasionally peek out from under her feet!

Bian Xiaomao had worked at the hospital for a long time and knew the purpose of that brand.

Those are number plates used to identify corpses!

Walking barefoot, her feet barely touching the ground, with number tags tied to her toes... This female smoker was practically a dead person! Bian Xiaomao was so horrified that he froze on the spot, unable to move.

At this moment, the woman stopped, slowly turned around, a sinister smile still on her face, and said, "Can I borrow a light?"

"what!"

Bian Xiaomao finally realized what was happening, let out a howl, turned around, and scrambled to escape. He didn't know how long he ran, but when he looked up, he was instantly struck dumb.

In his panic, he lost his bearings and unknowingly wandered into the morgue corridor.

In the corridor ahead, a woman with long, flowing hair, wearing a blue striped hospital gown, was walking barefoot and tiptoeing forward!

……

Gao He paused here, staring intently at me.

The monkey shuddered: "This really is a ghost! And then? What happened next?"

Seeing Gao He staring at me without speaking, I sighed inwardly and asked in a low voice, "I want to know, what does this have to do with getting lost or the wolfhound?"

Gao He looked at me with great interest: "In the middle of the night, a corpse comes out of the morgue to smoke and even asks the security guard for a light. Don't you find that scary?"

"You said you were a thorough materialist."

Gao He lit a cigarette and took a puff:
"What happened next was even stranger. That Bian Xiaomao was pretty brave; at least he wasn't too scared to walk. He was definitely terrified at the time, but when he saw the woman walk to the morgue entrance and suddenly turn around and smile at him... he came to his senses and turned to run away in fright. But the strange thing was, after running for a while, he stopped and looked around, and he was still near the morgue! He kept running, but no matter where he ran, he couldn't leave that area! He was lost!"

"You're trapped in a maze!" The monkey's expression became even more horrified.

Gao He nodded, pursing his lips. "Finally, when he was completely exhausted, he remembered he had a walkie-talkie on him. But just as he was about to contact the others, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from behind a car. The sound was 'crunching,' 'huffing, huffing'..."

As you know, when people are extremely frightened, they will instinctively generate the opposite emotion, which is the thought of 'going all out'.

That's exactly what Bian Xiaomao was like. He was terrified, but he steeled himself, took out his extended flashlight, shone it, and went around to the back of the red Mazda to take a look... Guess what he saw?

Seeing that neither the monkey nor I spoke, he lowered his voice even further:
"He saw a large wolfhound gnawing at a person! The person was wearing a hospital gown, had disheveled hair, and a tag with the number 00736 hanging on their bare feet. He had seen the tag of the female chain smoker from before; it had the same number. Moreover, the woman's belly was gnawed to pieces by the dog, but her face was facing him, and she was even smiling at him!"

"And then?" the monkey asked, breathing heavily.

Gao He flicked his cigarette ash. "Bian Xiaomao is a quiet man who can be surprisingly ruthless. It was his duty, too. When he saw the dog gnawing on the corpse, he yelled 'Awooo!' and rushed over with his flashlight! He was afraid of the corpse coming back to life, but he wasn't afraid of the dog. As soon as the dog heard the noise, it took off running, and Bian Xiaomao chased after it."

Bian Xiaomao was so focused on chasing the dog that he was practically on the verge of a breakdown, venting all his emotions on it. But he never expected that, in the end, the dog would suddenly disappear! When he came to his senses, he realized he was no longer on the basement level, but on the first floor, and even in the corridor of the annex!

Gao He stubbed out his cigarette, grinned, and said, "Tell me, isn't this weird?"

Although the monkey was so frightened that its hair stood on end, it suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked, "You must have checked the surveillance footage. What were the results? Was there really a female corpse?"

Gao He shook his head: "I've watched the surveillance footage several times, and it's roughly the same as what Bian Xiaomao described. However, from beginning to end, there was only one person. The action of lighting a cigarette in the corridor, taking the elevator down to the basement, the cats and dogs scurrying around near the morgue... everything is the same as he described, but there was only one person. There was no female corpse, and no dog."

The monkey relaxed immediately. "Tch, I thought we really saw a ghost. There was only one person from beginning to end. It must be Bian Xiaomao who's having problems. Didn't you check if he was on drugs? If he was, then it's most likely that he was hallucinating."

Gao He waved his hand: "That's not the point. The point is, the hospital has confirmed that 00736 is really missing!"

(End of this chapter)